EECA INTERACT 2023 PROGRAMME
December 14th, 2023
12:00-12:05 CET. Welcome Remarks.
by Ellen Rosskam, PhD, MPH, Coordinator, International Geneva Global Health Platform, Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute.
12:05-12:45 CET. PANEL 1.
Session on Impact of the war on Ukraine and beyond Ukraine across the EECA region.
Chairs: Michel Kazatchkine, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Switzerland), and Maksut Kulzhanov, Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University (Kazakhstan).
Topics and speakers:
- Social, political and economic impact of the war on the whole region – Timur Abdullaev, Board Member of TB people Global, Vice-chair or the Supervisory Board of AFEW International, Uzbekistan
- Resilience of Ukraine in the time of war – Olga Gvozdetska (pre-recording), Acting Deputy General Director, Public Health Center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine
- Perspective from the largest Ukrainian refugee-hosting country – Justyna Kowalska, MD, PhD, Senior Consultant, Hospital for Infectious Diseases in Warsaw; Professor of Medicine, Department of Adults’ Infectious Diseases, Medical University of Warsaw, Poland
12:45-13:30 CET. PANEL 2.
Session on Prevention in the EECA region and PreP.
Chairs: Anda Ķīvīte-Urtāne, Riga Stradins University, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology
(Latvia) and Stefan Baral, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Topics and speakers:
- Status of the HIV epidemic and highlights on the status of prevention in the region – Stela Bivol, Unit Lead (Joint Infectious Diseases) at WHO Regional Office for Europe
- Discussion on PreP in EECA countries with different PreP situations
- Andrii Bogoslavets, com.ua and ALLIANCE.GLOBAL (Ukraine)
- Veaceslav Mulear, LGBT Health and GENDERDOC-M (Moldova)
- Iason Shishniashvili, Equality Movement (Georgia)
13:30-13:55 CET. PANEL 3.
Session on (In)visible community: HIV and health disparities among MSM and Trans* people in EECA.
Chairs: Catherine Hankins, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) (The Netherlands / Canada) and Vera Ilienkova (UNAIDS).
Topics and speakers:
- Sex, drugs and HIV: results of the cross-sectional study in 4 countries of EECA – Nikolay Lunchenkov, Eurasian Coalition on Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity (ECOM)
- Comparative Analysis of Legal Environments and Rights Violations related to SOGI and HIV in 11 countries of EECA – Nadira Masiumova, Eurasian Coalition on Health, Rights, Gender and Sexual Diversity (ECOM)
- Q&A
13:55-14:00 CET. Concluding Remarks.
by Anda Ķīvīte-Urtāne, Riga Stradins University, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology (Latvia), Catherine Hankins, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (AIGHD) (The Netherlands / Canada) and Michel Kazatchkine, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Switzerland).